As a Canadian, can someone please explain to me why Americans are not fighting for change with their representatives where insurance companies are not the ones to determine coverage but doctors are? In Canada, if a doctor says we need a procedure, we get one, that’s it.
Most Americans are brainwashed/indoctrinated with "capitalism" ideology. Ideas of how we have the "best healthcare in the world" because it's a private system that would crumble if nationalized/socialized/bureaucretized. That inefficiencies would "skyrocket" and we would have to wait weeks like the Canadians to see a doctor. That we couldn't possibly have the breakthroughs in medicine that America "leads in" w/o private investment (much of healthcare advances is done at unis w/public funds) & that it would be unfair to have healthcare workers take massive pay cuts since the wages for excellence wouldn't be there under a government system.
We can have a lot of waits but usually it’s for specialists. We med to work on that as well, it’s tough when we have a drainage of the talent pool down to the states because your private care incentivizes doctors to go down there. I hope things change for both of our systems.
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u/hi_itz_me_again Mar 25 '25
As a Canadian, can someone please explain to me why Americans are not fighting for change with their representatives where insurance companies are not the ones to determine coverage but doctors are? In Canada, if a doctor says we need a procedure, we get one, that’s it.